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yellojktWhat did we learn last week? Let’s see, bankers are people too, and this week, Supreme Court justices have a life. Doesn’t everyone have a life outside of their work life? Of course they do, although some are more wed to their career choice than others and it does seem to define who they are. For some of us though work is just a job and it pays the bills. If you’re lucky, you also enjoy the work you’re doing, it’s interesting and rewarding both financially and emotionally.
What we’re seeing right now, I believe, is an entire generation of people taking jobs, any kind of a job, at almost lightning speed if they get the opportunity. I don’t know what that means for them. Will they learn to love it or will they always regret they didn’t hold out just a little longer for something more meaningful or more in line with their training and abilities? Almost 20% of the working population is either unemployed, underemployed or they’ve given up looking.
Obama appears to be trying to jump start hiring but I don’t think anyone really believes his proposal will pass Congress. What parts are agreed to will mostly be more tax cuts, a training program similar to the one in GA, and if we’re lucky a few infrastructure jobs down the line. And today we found out that interests rates are going to be pretty low for the conceivable future. That sounds pretty great, but it’s putting more pressure on parts of the economy and may actually back fire if it doesn’t spur hiring. So who’s going to start the hiring wars and when?
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What parts of AJA do folks think will create jobs (and when and what kind) and what parts do folks think will not create jobs?
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No one's around and so I thought I'd go look around the internet to see if anyone was still talking about unemployment like they were when the Aug. and Sept. numbers came out. Nope, nada, bubkes. We've moved on again I think, there's a plan so we're talking about taxes and class warfare, and Ben.
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Evening, lms. We need to remind everyone to clean out their comments. I've been working on mine and discovered a couple of things that were interesting. And while I was experimenting, I "removed content" from one of shrink's old comments in a meaningless exchange with me. The message on the comment became "This comment has been removed by a blog administrator." Should we let shrink know that he is the first on on ATiM to be pinked?
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Haaaaaaaaahaaaaa, yes I've been working on that today as well. I'm still not done. We probably go ahead and put the open thread up for tonight. I thought it was pre-scheduled but haven't seen it yet. I'll go look at it and see if it looks ready. Then we can remind everyone there.RE the AJA, I don't think anyone wants to really score it. I feel like we're spinning our wheels again, but I hope I'm wrong.
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Michi brings us the Liz Warren video everyone's been talking about today and a bunch of cool stuff from Kevin in the new thread.
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